Rose 4.30 + sent out 3 or 4 accounts It was still snowing this morning but the amount lying did not indicate that it had fallen all night. It became milder during the day + the streets were deep in slush. [illegible] sleet fell at intervals + there was very little S.W. wind. There have been no new messages today. Snow in forenoon Walked in forenoon in town + over to The Firs1 where Baptie2 picked me up + I drove to Broadmeadows3 + Hangingshaw.4 In afternoon rode Macaulay5 to Newhouse.6 Roads very heavy. Got to bed at 10.30.
1 Dr Muir had been attending Alice Smith née Paterson (1863-1943), wife of Patrick Smith, at the Firs, Selkirk.
2 Thomas Baptie (1860-1929), driver and handyman for Dr Muir.
3 Dr Muir had been attending Margaret Pattison Lang née Graham (1821-1914) at Broadmeadows, Selkirk.
4 Dr Muir had been attending Christina Dart née Rosie (1857-1928) the housekeeper at Hangingshaw, Yarrow – see Dr Muir’s diary entry for 25 February 1904.
5 Macaulay was one of Dr Muir’s horses.
6 Dr Muir had been attending Joan Elliot née Lambert (about 1853-), wife of James Elliot (about 1845-), farmer, Tenant Occupier of the farm and house of Newhouse, Lilliesleaf. Born at Bowden and Castleton, both Roxburghshire, respectively, they had married 28 June 1876 at Bowden.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/7, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1904]
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